BANDED DOTTEREL

Photographed at Maketu, New Zealand, June 2017

(*  432)               BANDED DOTTEREL                 Charadrius bicinctus 

NEW ZEALAND                62

Breeds on sandy beaches, shellbacks and especially braided riverbeds; after breeding forms flocks at estuaries, lake margins and sometimes short grassland. 20 cm. Although described as endemic over much of New Zealand large number migrate to Australia, where it is known as Double-banded Plover.

DOUBLE-BANDED PLOVER

Photographed in Tasmania, a Double-banded Plover in non-breeding plumage.

432            DOUBLE-BANDED PLOVER           Charadrius bicinctus

Australia             (300)

Also known as Double-banded Dotterel. 17.5-19 cm. This is the only wader to breed in NZ and then migrates to Australia for the winter. Ranges around coast and some distance inland from Perth across south and up east to Brisbane, and right across Tasmania. Found on wide beaches, tidal mudflats, salt marsh; wide, sparsely vegetated margins of shallow saline and freshwater wetlands; paddocks with sparse vegetation; ploughed fields and airfields.

The uncropped photograph of above, Double-banded
 Plover on right

Photographed Culburra Beach (NSW) March 2015